LeafLink is hiring a
Principal Data Engineer

Summary

LeafLink is seeking a Data Engineer to join their New York-based team. The role involves creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture, building analytics tools, and assisting in building a high-performing data platform. The candidate should have at least 3 years of experience in a professional working environment on a data or engineering team, advanced SQL knowledge, and expertise with Python, AWS cloud technologies, Airflow, and various databases.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience in a professional working environment on a data or engineering team
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
• Expertise writing Python processing jobs to ingest a variety of structured and unstructured data received from various sources & formats such as Rest APIs, Flat Files, Logs
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting in Python and data processing libraries such as requests, pandas, sqlalchemy
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, such as Redshift, or comparable cloud-based OLAP databases such as Snowflake
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow
• Experience with cloud-based data stack, AWS cloud services is a plus

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Python, and AWS cloud technologies
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics
• Assist in building a high-performing data platform that will power various reporting and analytics applications at LeafLink

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with technologies such as Dynamo, Terraform, Kubernetes, Fivetran, and dbt is a strong plus

Benefits

• Flexible PTO. - you’re going to be working hard so enjoy time off with no cap!
• A robust stock option plan
• 5 Days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO). - giving back is important to us and we want our employees to prioritize cultivating a better community
• Competitive compensation. and 401k match
• Comprehensive health. coverage. (medical, dental, vision)
• Commuter Benefits. through our Flexible Spending Account